The objective of this assignment is to assess the potential social and environmental impacts of the proposed REDD+ activities; and to develop an ESMF, in line with Guyana’s emerging national REDD+ Strategy. The SESA and ESMF will be designed to be compatible with UNFCCC and FCPF requirements and take national circumstances into account, following the principles of transparency, completeness, consistency, comparability and applicability ensuring robust consultations with key stakeholders.

To develop a REDD+ Safeguards Information System and a Summary of Information on how safeguards are being addressed and respected for Cambodia in close collaboration with the Cambodia REDD+ Taskforce and in consultation with relevant national and local stakeholders.

This consultancy aims to support the Dominican Republic with the implementation of a strategic environmental and social assessment [SESA] to identify the possible impacts and risks, as well as the opportunities among the various REDD+ strategic options of the country; leading to with the design of an Environmental and Social Management Framework [ESMF] to address and manage potential environmental and social risks during the implementation of its REDD+ Strategy.

The purpose of this consultancy is to support the government of Panama with the development of the country’s National REDD+ Strategy, including the indentification of REDD+ Policies and Measures [PaMs].

The project aims to support Guatemala in meeting the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) procedural safeguard requirements, that is, the strategic social and environmental assessment (SESA) and the adoption of a Environmental Social Management Framework (ESMF).
In addition, the project aims to assist with the design of a Grievance Redress Mechanism (GRM).

This project aims to assist regional leaders in REDD+ readiness, with good prospects of near-term financing, meet multiple safeguard requirements and be eligible for results-based payments. This will be achieved at the national level through facilitating country-led safeguard approaches and designing of safeguard information systems (SIS), and at the subnational level through mainstreaming of safeguards into low-emissions development planning and piloting participatory forest monitoring approaches. In addition, the project has a global component, aimed at developing state of the art...

The project aims to support Guatemala in designing a system that provides information on REDD+ GHG, multiples benefits and safeguards. This will be achieved by assisting with the necessary governance assessments (i.e. information systems and sources and institutional capacity); by assisting with the identification of the information needs, and by providing a conceptual proposal for the design of the system.

The project aims to support Viet Nam with the adoption of a Country Safeguard Approach and the design of Safeguards Information System (SIS). This will be achieved by facilitating participatory process (including the set-up of multi-stakeholder safeguard committee), by assisting with the necessary governance assessments (e.g. the identification and assessments of legal and institutional frameworks, grievance redress mechanisms, information systems and non-compliance mechanisms), by assisting with the clarification of the UNFCCC REDD+ safeguards to the country context and the identification...